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HEALTH

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EDUCATION

HARP PUSHES FOR STATEWIDE TAX ON SODA

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UCS to fund interview travel

SOM Rankings Update.

Professor Rodrigo Canales, who teaches organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, has been named one of the ‘Best 40 Under 40 Professors’ by Poets and Quants. “My participant observation research in microfinance was like a season of Mike Rowe’s “Dirty Jobs.” I found myself shearing sheep, collecting trash, butchering, milking cows...[and] a guest in a local drug lord’s house,” he said in the piece. Students also praised his talk on Mexican drug cartels in the article. Hats off to you Mr. White!

YCBA Late Night. The Yale Center for British Art hosted a late night last night, in an event titled ‘Student Night Out in the Study Room.’

During this after-hours event, students were allowed to meet curators and staff and view works in the center’s newly refurbished Study Room.

Refreshments were also served in the Library Court.

The art of art. Sketching

classes also started at the YCBA on Wednesday. The free sessions, where drawing materials are provided, allow attendees to practice sketching based on art in the Center’s collection with different instructors.

When in Rome... Yale art

history professor Diana Kleiner recently wrote the e-book Roman Architecture: A Visual Guide, an illustrated tour of the great buildings of the Roman empire. The book is a companion to her longtime Roman Architecture course, recently made available online through on Coursera.

Now anybody can enjoy the wonders of learning and lectures!

Love is in the drink. Thali Too, Thali and Oaxaca Kitchen are all giving out complimentary martini’s for two during Valentine’s Day dinner for couples that print out a special coupon.

Kissing for a cause. Kiss Away Cancer hit the dance floor at Toad’s last night. The charity component gives everyone who attended at least one reason not to regret their DFMO. Submit to The Wallace Prize.

The Wallace Prize is the most prestigious independently awarded undergraduate writing prize for fiction and nonfiction at Yale. Winners will receive a substantial cash prize, and winning submissions in each category will be published in the Yale Daily News Magazine.

Submissions for this year are due by March 3.

THIS DAY IN YALE HISTORY

1957 Handsome Dan IX is entered into a dog show for the first time. There are also rumors that Dan, currently a bachelor, may be wooing a bulldog named Sophia Smith.

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See’s death investigation continues

BY MAREK RAMILO STAFF REPORTER

Yale Club of New York, Dames said UCS will be able to cover up to $100 for about 150 students’ travel plans across the country this year.

“There’s an incredible need for this service,” Dames said, adding that even a train ticket to New York represents a significant financial burden for many students. “We were seeing a lot of students in those fields not going to the interviews even if

Months after Samuel See, the late assistant professor of English, was found dead in a local jail cell, his family continues its quest for clarity of the events that led to his death.

Kelly Flanagan, See’s sister, has led the family’s push for a lawsuit against the New Haven Police Department and the Connecticut State Judicial Branch — the agencies that arrested and detained See on Nov. 23, respectively — saying that details from medical reports and conversations with her brother before his death leave many questions unanswered.

Though both agencies have launched internal investigations to ensure that protocol was followed, Flanagan maintains that only an additional lawsuit, and subsequent independent investigation, will reveal what the family believes to be the truth, that brutality and negligence played a significant part in See’s death. The family maintains this claim despite Chief State Medical Examiner James Gill’s finding that a methamphetamine-induced heart attack was to blame for See’s untimely death.

“We’re going to pursue a lawsuit no matter what,” Flanagan said. “Just because someone died of an overdose doesn’t mean

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With plans to pay for student transportation to interviews, UCS hopes to expand job opportunities for Yale seniors.

BY RISHABH BHANDARI STAFF REPORTER This spring, some students will receive free transportation to job interviews — paid for not by their prospective employer, but by Yale’s Undergraduate Career Services.

Starting this semester, UCS is expanding a program called “MetroLink” that helps subsidize travel expenses for seniors who have received offers to either interview

or audition for jobs in the nonprofit, public or performing arts sectors, according to UCS Director Jeanine Dames. Employers in these sectors tend to have smaller budgets for recruitment, she said.

Last year, UCS piloted the program, though only 32 students who were traveling to Washington D.C. for interviews with government agencies were eligible at the time.

After receiving funds from three private-sector employers and the

Kaleidoscope replaced

BY WESLEY YIIN STAFF REPORTER For the first time since 2007, Kaleidoscope — an original theatrical production featuring Yale students sharing their experiences with diversity — will not be one of the events for incoming freshmen in the first week of fall semester.

Instead, admitted students will find stories of diversity in their email inboxes over the summer.

A new program, called Unexp e c te d C o n n e c t i o n s, wa s announced in a Feb. 4 email to the student body by Dean of Student Affairs Marichal Gentry. The email asked recipients to submit stories, short videos, images, poetry, spoken word or other pieces that describe relationships and friendships that began outside of their comfort zones. Students who participated in the program said they did not know the official reason for the cancellation of Kaleidoscope, but some suggested that the production caused a strain on both finances and labor.

Gentry could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

The Intercultural Affairs Council (IAC), which is comprised of students and administrators and aims to facilitate conversations and events that serve to bridge cultural groups, will now select pieces from the pool of submissions to be sent to freshmen over the summer, said IAC member Vanessa Noelte ’16.

Noelte said that like Kaleidoscope, Unexpected Connections looks to eliminate stigma associated with various groups and cultures represented on campus.

“There’s a lot of diversity at Yale, and, for some people, that’s very shocking,” Noelte said. “[With Unexpected Connections], we’re exploring a lot of different stories.

People can connect more to this.”

Kaleidoscope, Noelte said, was somewhat insufficient in that it only chose a handful of stories and failed to reach the entire freshman class, since many students chose to skip the event. To resolve this, Noelte said stories from Unexpected Con-

nections will be sent to the incoming class’s emails, allowing students to access them on their own time and perhaps even reach out to the students involved in the stories.

Individuals involved in the most recent Kaleidoscope production were generally unbothered by its discontinuation.

Joan Lipkin, director of Kaleidoscope and artistic director of That Uppity Theatre Company, said she was grateful for being able to partake in Yale’s commitment to diversity. She commended the University for creating an original piece of theater with an entirely new group of upperclassmen every year.

“I have enjoyed working with students, faculty and administration at Yale over the past three years and hope that there will opportunities for me to do so again,” Lipkin said in an email to the News. “I felt very supported in my work as a guest artist and believe that we generated some beautiful and productive pieces that had an impact.”

Although Lipkin said she was not told the reasoning behind Kaleidoscope’s cancellation, she acknowledged that the production is quite “labor-intensive regarding issues of housing, rehearsal and performance space, scheduling, rehearsals and devising of the material.” She added that even with a successful program like Kaleidoscope, the University may have wanted to explore other options.

Michael Zhao ’15, who was a cast member last year, said he was shocked when Michael Perkins, the production’s assistant director, told the most recent class of cast members that Kaleidoscope would not return in the fall.

Still, he conceded that the program had its drawbacks and could be improved.

“I feel like Kaleidoscope definitely relies on the strength of the cast, and the strength of the cast relies on the people applying to be in it,” Zhao said.

Zhao said many parts of the Yale community were not represented

Study probes tenured teaching

BY PHOEBE KIMMELMAN AND VIVIAN WANG STAFF REPORTERS Yale students who are taught by tenure-track professors may learn less than students taught by lecturers, according to a new study.

According to a September 2013 report published by

the National Bureau of Economic Research that considered data from 15,000 Northwestern University students over eight years, students who took introductory courses taught by tenure-track professors learned less than students who took the same class with a non-tenuretrack professor — the Yale

equivalent of a lecturer.

The researchers measured how much a student learned by evaluating two criteria: first, how likely the student was to take another class in that subject, and second, how well the student performed in that subsequent class. Non-tenure-track SEE TENURE PAGE 6

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A study revealed students in introductory classes with tenure-track professors learned less.

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For NYTimes access, online Faux forgetfulness A I

’m going to level with you: I have a lot of pet peeves.

Perhaps too many — who’s to say. But today I want to talk to you about one of my least favorite things: being forgotten.

Let me set the scene: you’re at dinner with a friend in the dining hall. A stranger comes up to chat with your friend, and you briefly twiddle your thumbs, waiting for the requisite introduction. Maybe, if you have a good memory for faces or enjoy stalking your friends’ Facebook profiles, you awkwardly recognize this mysterious stranger. We do, after all, inhabit the same tiny space. But in any case, you bide your time. If you have a friend with any social grace, sooner or later you and this potential new friend are introduced. You exchange names; You make small talk about how cold it was today, about how you’re exhausted because you were up until four on a paper, or about how you really wish there hadn’t been vegan ravioli for dinner again. Eventually, the former stranger goes along on his merry way, and you can resume your dinner.

DON'T FORGET THE PEOPLE YOU MEET AT YALE Let’s fast-forward — maybe a day, maybe two weeks. You’re at another dinner, or a party, or someone’s play and you find yourself standing in a circle with your new acquaintance. And yet, when someone politely asks if the two of you have ever met, the former stranger says you haven’t, and warmly introduces himself again.

Sometimes forgetfulness is completely innocuous; if I meet someone for 10 seconds at a party, it’s unreasonable to expect him to remember me a month later. And so I’m generally inclined to stifle my injured pride the first time I’m forgotten; everyone’s busy, right? We all meet tons of people every day — it’s only to be expected that a face or two slips through the cracks after only one encounter.

But it is all too common for people at Yale to meet one another and have a real conversation, albeit a superficial one, and then completely forget about that person’s existence. And then they “meet” again, and the same thing happens. I’ve “met” the same people four or five times before the connection sticks. And at that point, no matter how warm the second, or third, or fourth re-

introduction is, their constant forgetfulness can’t help but be incredibly offensive.

Because what does VICTORIA it mean to HALLc o n s ta n t l y forget somePALERM one? In the best-case The scenario, it’s Notorious just absentVHP mindedness.

And, sure, that’s completely understandable up to a point. Another name to learn or face to recall is, sometimes, too much to ask after a long day of class work and memorization.

But it is troubling that Yalies find it easier to remember the anatomy of the brain or the data of the Punic Wars than the face of an exciting and interesting classmate. Shouldn’t our connections with peers be worth more of our time and energy? Yale is a special place largely because of the people; it seems like it would be worth everyone’s while to invest a little more time in remembering their daily interactions, however brief they may be.

Even worse than students who truly forget one another are those whose forgetfulness rises to the level of a power play. Because what are you really saying when you meet someone countless times yet don’t remember them? In a backhanded way it says that you’re too busy, too important, too harried to remember minutiae like someone else’s name.

It’s a subtle reminder that, as of right now, they’re not worth your time.

This might seem overly dramatic, but this sort of interaction happens often enough to merit discussion. I can’t even count how many times I’ve been walking to class, crossing paths with someone I’ve met several times. My initial instinct is to smile, maybe even wave awkwardly as I trek along.

But after countless unreciprocated waves, I’ve instead taken to uncomfortable eye contact — the eye contact that says: “We’ve met. But let’s ignore that.” I end up making the safer, self-protective move.

We’re all guilty of faux forgetfulness. And in the grand scheme of things, it’s fairly trivial. But isn’t this a small habit that can easily be fixed?

We shouldn’t feel the need to reiterate our own importance by denying one another recognition.

VICTORIA HALL-PALERM is a junior in Berkeley College. Her column runs on alternate Thursdays. Contact her at victoria.hall-palerm@yale.edu .

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sk me about the drawer in my room stuffed with old newspapers. Ask me about the time I dressed up as a newsmagazine for Halloween.

My point is, I love the news; I love The New York Times in particular. So when the Times went missing from Berkeley Dining Hall — and every dining hall, I later found out — at the end of last semester, I was dismayed.

Yale has over 20 billion dollars in its endowment, and I figured that money should at least guarantee students a chance to read “all the news that’s fit to print.”

Still, recent news that hard copies of the Times would return to the dining halls temporarily came to me as bittersweet and the arrival of Monday’s printed paper didn’t feel as satisfying as I had expected. That’s because the reinstatement of the Times came with the news that negotiations to make a campus-wide online subscription available were stalling.

Yale students are pretty well read, journalistically speaking.

The New York Times might not be the paper of choice for all students — our campus is full of vocal advocates for The Wall Street Journal, plus fans of newsmagazines like

The Economist and The Atlantic — but it’s still a wo r t hwh i l e i nve s t m e n t for a campus full of conCAROLINE s c i e n t i o u s young adults.

POSNER Though the Yale ColOut of Line lege Council’s 2010 survey suggests the majority of students didn’t read the print edition on a regular basis, it’s clear that there is a dedicated readership on campus. At least as far as I saw, the stack of papers made available in dining halls was usually gone by lunch.

But The New York Times is dense, and the paper waste is extensive. Supplying the dining halls with a few hundred copies daily means perpetuating an environmentally unfriendly practice that we could easily do without. Sure, it’s unrealistic to claim that Yale’s own consumption of the Times makes much of a contribution to deforestation or waste production, and cutting back won’t save the world. But as

a university that avows concern for the environment and progressive measures to ensure a green campus, putting an end to our mass consumption of print media is a symbolic gesture that conveys commitment to our principles.

The YCC and Yale University seem to understand this, as indicated by their efforts to secure an online subscription to the paper, which otherwise limits nonsubscribers to 10 articles per month.

Yet according to an article in the News this week, negotiations have continued for several months, prompting administrators to renew the print subscription for now. Several months seems a ridiculous length of time to spend negotiating online news availability, particularly when this comes as a practical business opportunity for the Times.

Print circulation of the paper is dropping while digital readership climbs. Introducing Yale students to digital Times subscriptions means an increased likelihood that they will choose to be online Times subscribers after graduation. A campus-wide online subscription would mean universal access to the paper, rather than limiting readership to the number

of copies available in each dining hall.

Dedicated Yale readers, including those interviewed this week in the News, argue that the digital news experience isn’t comparable to the printed word — and I agree. Reading the Times in its tangible form is for many a morning ritual, and the crossword is far better in print. But the luxury of the printed newspaper fails to justify the environmental repercussions of a print subscription for the entire campus. As students, it’s fair that we request schoolsponsored access to international news. Our paper-verse-digital preferences, though, shouldn’t supersede concerns of environmental sustainability.

It’s nice to have the Times back at Yale, but I’d rather see it on campus in digital form. Yale needs to realize both the moral and practical value of an online subscription, and act decisively to make clear its commitment to a policy of reducing waste.

CAROLINE POSNER is a freshman in Berkeley College. Her columns run on alternate Thursdays.

Contact her at caroline.posner@yale.edu .

GUEST COLUMNIST JEANINE DAMES

The redemption of February F

ebruary is the shortest month of the year, and yet we all hope it will move more quickly. Maybe it’s the snow, the unbearable polar vortex or the enticement of spring break that pushes us along, but February is definitely the month when summer is on everyone’s mind. At Undergraduate Career Services the summer discussion focuses around internships and postgraduate jobs, which makes sense.

And February is the prime time for those discussions.

Some students, particularly juniors, may be participating in the on-campus interview program which is one tool in a vast toolbox; one that will yield positions for about 15 percent of the class.

However, the majority of summer positions are secured in March and April. According to the 2013 Summer Activities Survey, more than 52 percent of students secured positions in March and April last year. Looking at the post-graduate search more than 60 percent

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of the Class of 2013 secured their position in the spring of senior year, with 27 percent accepting positions in March and April.

Here again we may think February is obsolete, but I would argue that it is vitally important because the seeds sowed in February bear the flowers of March and April. Okay, admittedly metaphors are not my strength but you get the point.

Time is a precious thing at Yale. I am in constant awe over the number of activities that students manage, while at the same time carrying a full course load. You will never hear me say that the job search process is easy or quick. A good job search is a marathon, not a sprint, but with so many other obligations it can be challenging to maintain momentum. To make it manageable it needs to fit into your schedule. I often advise students to think of their job search as another class. As you create a schedule for yourself each week for course work, schedule in two to three hours a week for your job

On commenting and confidentiality After receiving 172 mostly critical comments about its one-sided article — or to use its euphemism, a “stub” — the News censored its readers from expressing their opinions: “The commenting feature for this article was disabled because comments were revealing confidential personal information on which the News did not report.”

Oh, the irony.

In its article (“Former YIRA President accused of Misallocating Funds,” Feb. 11) the News revealed confidential and personal information about an ongoing internal investigation, while repeating unverified accusations made in an internal email among active YIRA members.

After facing backlash, the News hid all comments on the article and refused to accept any new ones. After two and a half hours, the News deleted and reposted the article without the 172 comments.

Finally, it restored the first link, deleting many comments and leaving the remaining ones out of context. The News also deleted all of its Twitter posts referencing the original article. These cowardly moves — ones that silence the voices of readers — run so contrary to the ideals on which newspapers were built.

Newspapers are supposed to have values: accessibility, honesty and integrity.

We give them our trust, and we expect them to live up to these ideals in return.

Too often they shirk that obligation, choosing clicks and views over evidence and proof. While the News did apologize this morning for its unclear and incomplete reporting, it did not apologize for the way it mishandled user comments — and it published a new article which still mentions the student being investigated by name.

We must hold our fellow Yalies to an even higher standard of journalistic integrity, especially when it comes to dealing with such delicate material involving their peers. The News has not traditionally published such sen-

search. Each week will build upon the next, and as they build you will start to see results.

The resources at Yale to assist students with their summer and post-graduate plans are outstanding, almost to the point of overwhelming and there are some students who may be struggling with where to begin. My advice is simple: Take it in stages. Just as you would work through a course syllabus, you can work through a job search strategy. Each student’s strategy is unique. It may include steps such as developing a list of target organizations, contacting Yale alumni to learn more about a particular field and talking with fellow students about their experiences. Starting with a conversation about your interests and developing your unique strategy is the first step.

Some students may not be sure what they want to pursue, but they may know what they don’t want; that is just as valuable. Keep in mind that your summer experi-

sitive details about an ongoing investigation, nor has it restricted speech among its readers. We all make mistakes, but this one was costly. This bell cannot be unrung.

Though it will neither undo the damage caused nor restore the trust lost, I urge the Yale Daily News to apologize for censoring its readers and revealing confidential information to the public.

VINAY NAYAK Feb. 12 The author is a senior in Davenport College .

A right to be informed Tuesday night’s outcry against the News’ article (“Former YIRA President accused of Misallocating Funds,” Feb. 11) is wholly unwarranted and even baffling.

When the Yale International Relations Association, which purports to be the largest student organization at Yale, emails its membership and accuses the former president of financial impropriety, this is a newsworthy matter. The News, as a Yale media outlet, reports on campus happenings and subjects of interest to the student body. Like any newspaper, it has an obligation to pursue the truth, but it should not have to wait for a guilty verdict before publishing reports of questionable activity announced by an independent organization. The News in no way implied whether the accusations were true or false.

Reporters did their job and covered the story as it developed. We ought to consider the alternative to coverage in the News: With absent newspaper reporting, it is likely that there would have been even more scurrilous forms of rumor-mongering, particularly given the hundreds of students who received the original YIRA email.

ences are a method to try different areas. Even at the stage of the postgraduate search, your first position after college will not define your career; it will just get you started.

Careers move in the most unexpected ways, and according to the most recent data available through the Bureau of Labor Statistics the typical American worker’s tenure with his or her current employer is 4.1 years.

As the winter charges on and the next snow storm is around the corner, I recall a quote from Albert Camus: “In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.” I propose that is the way we should look at February, as a time for planning and a time to use the vast resources available at Yale to create an unforgettable summer.

JEANINE DAMES is an assistant dean of Yale College and the director of Undergraduate Career Services. Contact her at jeanine.dames@yale.edu .

While I believe that the accused should be considered innocent until proven guilty, I do believe the public has the right to be informed of the accusation pending a verdict. Perhaps as a community we should reflect on what it means that the very existence of an accusation implies guilt. In fact, this incident gives our community much opportunity for reflection — but only if we’re given access to the news.

JOSH KALLA Feb. 12 The author is a senior in Morse College .

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NEWS

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” OPRAH WINFREY AMERICANTALK SHOW HOST

CORRECTIONS WEDNESDAY, FEB. 12

Harp pushes expanded bus service, flights

The article “Med School to see reform” incorrectly stated that the Yale School of Medicine has a student body of 400.

In fact, there are about 400 students pursuing an M.D. alone.

City staff additions queried

BY ISAAC STANLEY-BECKER STAFF REPORTER It takes money to make money.

That is the message the Board of Alders’ finance committee sent Wednesday night as they hedged on the requested creation of seven additional City Hall jobs and one entirely new office. Rather than sending the items on to the full Board, the nine alders present kept the proposals in committee, requesting that representatives from the mayor’s office return with clearer job descriptions and budgetary details.

“There’s a serious breakdown here,” said committee chair and Ward 4 Alder Andrea JacksonBrooks, referring to delays in the presentation of proposed salaries and funding mechanisms. Board President Jorge Perez asked Harp’s acting parks director, Rebecca Bombero, who has also been acting as a legislative liaison, to be more transparent. Perez said he was concerned the mayor’s office was understating the fiscal impact of its requests.

Bombero urged the committee to move quickly on the proposed positions, saying that a full-time legislative director and grant writer are necessary to capture funds that will become available under a slew of federal grants in the next two months. The alders declined to make a hasty judgment, promising to return to the proposals after reviewing the budgetary implications and more detailed job descriptions from the mayor’s office.

The proposals, submitted at the behest of Mayor Toni Harp, would create an Office of Development and Policy within the mayor’s office, tasked primarily with writing grants to secure philanthropic and corporate funds. It would include a director’s position with an expected salary of $116,000. That job would go to Mendi Blue, currently Harp’s director of labor relations and a former management consultant.

Harp has also asked that a legislative director position be added to the payrolls, as well as a director of minority and small business initiative and a bilingual administrative assistant. She said the grant writing positions would ultimately pay for themselves, helping the city win funds that would indirectly cover their own salaries. Alders expressed skepticism about that prospect, saying salaries for the new positions — as well as medical benefits and other associated costs — need to be written into the budget whether or not the new staffers succeed in securing funding for the city.

Michael Harris ’15, Harp’s liaison to the Board, said the positions will be funded for the remainder of the fiscal year by leftover money from expired grants. After that money dries up, he said, the mayor’s office will look for potential vacancies

to eliminate as it moves the new positions into the general fund.

Ward 22 Alder Jeanette Morrison asked what would happen to the new hires if they do not perform as expected. She said she would rather not budget money for positions that will end up being terminated in three to five years.

Bombero said grants have a high rate of success but take a considerable amount of time to prepare. She said she spent 40 hours on top of her regular work preparing the youth violence prevention grant that won the city $750,000 at the end of last year. When the city contracts out the work to private individuals, it comes at a considerable fee. She defended the position’s proposed $116,000 salary — which Ward 17 Alder Alphonse Paolillo Jr. noted is higher than that of the city’s chief administrative officer — by saying it is standard in the industry.

Blue, a New Haven native who holds three Harvard degrees, said her job would able tap into resources not currently being pursued by the city — namely philanthropic and corporate funding. She said each city department currently applies for grants on an “ad hoc basis.” She would be in charge of coordinating those efforts and expanding the number of funding sources.

At Wednesday’s meeting, Harris named a handful of available grants that the Office of Development and Policy might pursue, including money for an adult drug program and for an art technology career training program. Morrison asked why city staffers currently writing grants on a parttime basis could not apply for this funding.

“This gives us the leg up we need,” Bombero responded.

Local residents and government watchdogs Ken Joyner and Gary Doyens appeared at Wednesday’s meeting to protest the additions to the mayor’s office. Joyner said the director of minority and small business initiative position was eliminated two budgets ago, absorbed into the Economic Development Office. Grant writing does not merit a fulltime position, he added.

Doyens said the city cannot afford to increase the mayor’s staff, saying the proposed additions were all duplicative of current offices and positions. He further criticized the mayor’s staff for not being sufficiently attentive to public concern.

“The staff came here late for this public hearing and they left before hearing the public rebuttals,” Doyens said. Bombero was the single staff member to stay through the end of public testimony.

The finance committee’s next meeting is scheduled for March 12.

Contact ISAAC STANLEYBECKER at isaac.stanley-becker@yale.edu .

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The Board of Alders’ finance committee requested the creation of more City Hall jobs and an entirely new office.

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Proposed expansions of the CT Transit bus system and Tweed Airport highlight Mayor Toni Harp’s new policy focus on improving transportation services.

BY DAVID BLUMENTHAL STAFF REPORTER One of the most salient policy shifts proposed during Mayor Toni Harp’s annual State of the City address last Monday night was a renewed focus on the city’s transportation services. Harp’s remarks have drawn the attention of New Haven residents on and off Yale’s campus.

Calling transportation an “economic and civil rights issue,” Harp said that she would make transportation a central priority of her administration, striking out on two new fronts. She said her administration plans to expand the CT Transit bus system, revamping routes and adding new vehicles to increase access to jobs in the city. She said she also plans to turn New Haven into more of a hub for air traffic, proposing to add flights from Tweed Airport to Florida, Washington and Chicago.

“Rest assured we’re working to deliver economic improvement to the city’s outlying areas,” she said. “We’re poised to put energy and resources into their vibrant future as well.”

New Haven Transit Chief Doug Hausladen ’04 called the faults of the New Haven public transit system, and specifically its public bus service, “unconscionable.”

Hausladen cited an AAA study

showing that owning a car would now cost the average resident around $9,100 a year as of 2013, as well as the fact that the CT Transit bus system in New Haven sharply declines in “frequency” in the evening hours, making getting home from a late-night job or other obligation decidedly difficult.

Hausladen added that the discussion of transportation concerned not only plane and bus travel, but also other initiatives Harp announced during her speech, such as making it easier to bike in New Haven and alleviating city traffic congestion.

Mark Abraham, the executive director of the public information non-profit Data Haven, said the promised efforts to improve Southern Connecticut’s sole airport were encouraging. Abraham said he would look forward to having a more convenient flight option than LaGuardia Airport, his current airport of choice.

“Most residents of our state live closer to Tweed airport,” he said. “The state should care about having two strong airports.”

However, the expansion of Tweed, which becomes famously crowded during token events like Yale’s Commencement and the New Haven Open, has not always been so uncontroversial. Residents of the town of East Haven have frequently voted to reject

renovation projects for Tweed for fear of inconveniencing residents — the most recent such instance was the rejection of a federally approved project in 2007. The city of New Haven has also struggled to lure new airlines to Tweed, whose only currently servicing airline is US Airways Express.

Laurence Grotheer, the communications director at City Hall, said the Mayor plans “to work with East Haven and for them” in any projects concerning Tweed Airport, and that “access to other larger hub airports is important and necessary” for the area’s economic future.

Grotheer said that the city will inevitably need state funding in order to complete both projects. Concerns over state help, among other things, led Harp and Governor Dannel Malloy to meet last Friday afternoon.

Grotheer declined to discuss further details of the meeting, and the Governor’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

City Hall Legislative Director Rebecca Bombero said in an email that the Friday meeting was “the start of an open dialogue about projects in New Haven.”

On campus, Harp’s new transportation policies raised eyebrows, but drew largely positive responses. Nine out of 10 Yale students interviewed said

they would be more likely to use Tweed Airport if it expanded service according to Harp’s plan.

Right now, Tweed only offers direct flights to Philadelphia.

Andres Valdivieso ’15 said the new service being offered at Tweed would be “awesome” for getting back to his native Florida, while Jackson Stallings ’17 said that flight expense were his main concern. Bill Drexel ’16 said that he had had some “sketchy experiences” at Tweed, mainly related to flight delays and maintenance, and that he would be less inclined to use the airport anyway until those issues have been resolved.

Yale students seem less inclined to ride CT transit buses in the future, no matter their routes — 9 out of 10 interviewed said they had never ridden one of the buses, and all interviewed said they usually found the existing Yale Shuttle suitable for their needs.

From the vantage point of Abraham’s DataHaven, New Haven’s largest taxpayer and employer can play an incomparable role as a lobbyist, using its considerable resources to “lobby federal officials.”

The CT Transit bus system was founded in 1976 and Tweed Airport was constructed in 1931.

Contact DAVID BLUMENTHAL at david.blumenthal@yale.edu .

Keane talks marketing solar

BY LILLIAN CHILDRESS STAFF REPORTER The biggest wasters of energy in America today are none other than college students, according to Brian Keane.

Keane is the president of SmartPower, a nonprofit marketing firm that directs campaigns related to energy efficiency. He gave a talk titled “50 Shades of Green: Changing Energy Behavior in the United States” to about 30 members of the Yale community in Kroon Hall Wednesday evening, focusing on how community-based outreach can be used to make solar panels a ubiquitous source of energy in the United States, and how college students can be part of this effort.

“The only way to get people to engage in energy is peer to peer, friend to friend and neighbor to neighbor,” he said.

Keane spoke of four distinct barriers that deter the average consumer from buying solar power: doubt about the energy source’s reliability, lack of commercial availability, perceived high costs and unwillingness to switch over from their current power source.

However, Keane said these problems could be solved simply. He cited making solar panels easier to purchase and educating people about the benefits of solar power as two potential solutions. Political or social incentives could also help change consumer priorities, he added.

Keane said he has seen through the work of SmartPower that people are most likely to buy solar when those around them are buying it as well.

“The best way to get somebody to do something is to make

it normal,” Keane said.

Keane stressed that, while college students waste the most energy of any demographic in America — college students take, on average, a 45-minute long hot shower every day, he said — they are also eager to help fix the problem.

He gave the example of the America’s Greenest Campus Challenge, which offered monetary rewards to universities across the country for reducing their energy use during a six-month period in 2009. Yale, Harvard and Stanford all finished in the top 10, and all participating schools saved a total of 4.25 million in energy costs during the competition, Keane said.

“College students want to be part of the solution, they just don’t know how to use energy,” he said.

Keane said one phenomenon that Americans should

know more about is phantom load — the power that televisions, refrigerators, computers and other appliances drain from outlets even when they are turned off. According to Keane, almost 10 percent of a home’s energy is lost to phantom load.

Over the course of a year, the amount of energy wasted is the equivalent of the energy produced by 16 coal-fired power plants, he said.

Keane said marketing approaches for solar energy may not even include publicizing the moral or environmental implications of choosing solar power.

Rather, he said campaigns can inform consumers about what solar power can do for their lives through community-based outreach, or by encouraging people to make one simple energy-saving change, which often starts a chain reaction of subsequent energy-saving actions.

Students interviewed who

attended the talk said they found Keane’s approach to solar energy unconventional but interesting.

“I thought it was interesting approaching sustainability from a marketing point of view,” said Emma Ryan ’17, a member of Yale solar advocacy group Project Bright. “Putting it in terms of economics is really a driving factor for most people.”

Marissa Galizia FES ’15 SOM ’15 said she was intrigued by how Keane stressed that the best way to market solar energy may be to emphasize the difference it will make in consumers’ lives.

SmartPower is currently involved in a project called Solarize Connecticut, a program that aims to make solar power more accessible to Connecticut consumers.

Contact LILLIAN CHILDRESS at lillian.g.childress@yale.edu .

BRIANNA LOO/PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Brian Keane, president of SmartPower, discussed how to make solar power appeal to more consumers.

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FROM THE FRONT

“If we guarantee employment for some, we jeopardize employment for everyone.”

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Family pursues independent investigation SAMUEL SEE FROM PAGE 1 that the police and State Judicial Marshals are not at fault. People need to be held accountable … there’s enough here to where I think this is dirty.”

Flanagan confirmed that the family has ordered a second autopsy from a private clinic in Rhode Island. Additionally, the family has requested access to videotape of the State Judicial Marshal lock-up on Union Avenue, where See was kept through the morning of Nov. 24, when he was found unresponsive in his cell. The family has received no results from either, but Flanagan said they expect the branch to cooperate and that the information will be critical to their case against the NHPD and State Judicial Branch.

In order to deal with claims of misconduct, both the NHPD and State Judicial Branch have internal affairs departments to investigate complaints submitted by either civilians or employees.

“It is the policy of the New Haven Department of Police Service to investigate all complaints of misconduct against its employ-

ees,” a statement on the department’s website reads. “All investigations are conducted in a fair and expeditious manner in accordance with department, city, state and federal laws and regulations. The Internal Affairs Division operates as a neutral investigative body to serve the needs of the community and the Police Department.”

Lieutenant Anthony Campbell ’95 DIV ’09 who heads the department’s Internal Affairs Division could not be reached for comment.

The family, which has hired Law School professor David Rosen LAW ’69 as representation, bases its case on a number of claims.

Flanagan added, among several complaints, that police failed to resolve a similar domestic dispute at See’s home the night before his arrest and that marshals failed to properly check on him in his cell.

Additionally, the family would like to explain a “scant subscalpular hemorrhage” suffered by See the night of his arrest that is noted in existing medical reports.

Flanagan believes that injury and a trail of blood down See’s shirt, neck and leg were sustained after

police reportedly slammed See’s head into a wall and dragged him down a set of stairs — information that she said she received from her brother in a phone call from jail that night.

“My problem is that you can’t turn to the police for help,” Flanagan said. “I don’t like the idea of the police investigating itself. I don’t trust it.”

In an email to the News, Rosen said he is still reviewing information from the family before he decides how to proceed. Flanagan said she would consider approaching the Federal Bureau of Investigation for assistance.

Though See’s family has, up to this point, operated autonomously, many cases similar go through the city’s Civilian Review Board, a group that sifts through the NHPD’s internal investigation reports to ensure thoroughness and objectivity. The Board also enables an appeal process should citizens find an internal investigation’s findings and consequences unsatisfactory.

“When we see something that indicates that an investigation hasn’t been complete or is in some way unfair, we make a note and it

goes up the chain of command,” said Frank Cochran, a member of the Board.

Still, there has been movement to increase the reach of the board, which could result in its ability to conduct its own investigations and issue subpoenas, said Cochran and New Haven Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Jennifer Pugh.

On the state level, the Judicial Branch conducts internal investigations in response to complaints of policy violations, the majority of which are submitted by employees, branch Manager of Communications Rhonda Stearley-Hebert said.

“Generally, an internal review determines whether policies and procedures were followed,” she added. “The [See case] review is ongoing.”

Stearley-Hebert also said that the manner in which investigations are conducted depends on the case at hand — that “different situations would impact how the internal review proceeds.”

Experts interviewed said that, despite claims made by See’s family, it will be hard for their case to fight the reality that sev-

TIMELINE OF EVENTS

Fall 2013 Yale assistant professor of English Samuel See takes an unpaid leave of absence from the University, citing health reasons.

Nov. 23, 2013 NHPD officers respond to a domestic dispute report at See's home, eventually arresting See for violating a protective order, interfering with police and threatening in the seconddegree.

nal affairs compared to those representing civilians, Lawlor said residents should be able to obtain any records or documents open to officials.

“I would expect [the departments] to want to learn as much as they can and ensure that this doesn’t happen again.” Lawlor said. “It’s obviously a bad outcome, and we can acknowledge that, but the cause of death seems pretty clear.”

Candace McCoy, a professor at the City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice, agreed with Lawlor that, despite the tragedy of the situation, there does not appear to be much room for a private investigation to uncover anything groundbreaking. She explained that, for example, a brain hemorrhage can be caused by a number of factors and that under those circumstances, it will be difficult to find the police liable.

The Civilian Review Board was founded in 2001 through a Mayor’s Executive Order from former Mayor John DeStefano Jr. Contact MAREK RAMILO at marek.ramilo@yale.edu .

Jan. 6, 2014 Chief State Medical Examiner James Gill reports the cause of See's death to be a heart attack resulting from the consumption of methamphetamines.

Nov. 24, 2013 See is found dead in the cell in which he was being held by State Judicial Marshals following the Nov. 23 arrest.

Sep. 18, 2013 See and husband Sunder Ganglani are arrested on charges of third-degree assault and a breach of peace.

eral independent organizations — the involved law enforcement agencies, the State Chief Medical Examiner’s Office and Yale-New Haven Hospital — appear to agree on a set of facts.

“It’s certainly possible that investigations turn up evidence that wasn’t known before,” said state Under Secretary Mike Lawlor. “But here, you have [many] agencies directly involved, and they all seem to be on the same page with the sequence of events.

People are more than welcome to challenge that, but there’s nothing here that jumps off the page.”

Lawlor added that internal investigations have been called for in the past, particularly in cases where civil rights pertaining to race were said to be violated. He said that usually people are satisfied with the outcome of an internal investigation.

Cochran said those who call for an internal investigation have the option of appealing the report’s findings, but that in his experience serving on the Civilian Review Board, this has never happened.

When asked about any differences in access granted to inter-

Dec. 10, 2013 Protesters descend upon the NHPD's Union Ave. headquarters, calling for police accountability in light of See's death.

Jan. 26, 2014 A memorial service honoring See's life is held in Battell Chapel.

Jan. 10, 2014 See's sister, Kelly Flanagan, announces her family's plans to pursue a lawsuit against the NHPD and State Judicial Branch.

UCS helps seniors travel to interviews UCS FROM PAGE 1 they had an interest in the jobs.”

After the implementation of the pilot MetroLink program last year, the number of seniors traveling to Washington to interview for full-time government jobs increased from 15 students in 2012 to 35 students in 2013, according to UCS data. The number of seniors who applied to federal agencies also rose from 81 in 2012 to 178 in 2013, said Robyn Acampora, UCS associate director of employment programs and counselor for the nonprofit and public service fields. She added that the knowledge UCS would provide travel subsidies may have encouraged more seniors to apply to these opportunities.

According to Dames, 66 percent of the seniors who received MetroLink funding last year said they would not have gone to their interview offers without UCS’s travel subsidy. Some of those students accepted the job offers and are now working full-time in Washington, she said.

In order to apply for the travel subsidy, seniors must fill out a brief survey on Symplicity answering a series of questions regarding the type of work and location of the interview or audition, Dames said. Students must also indicate whether they would attend the interview or audition without UCS funding, she said.

“I want students to take advantage of this program, so that we can make a claim to expand the program in the future,” said Kathleen Volz, the UCS performing arts specialist. UCS hopes to expand both the number of subsidies the office gives each year as well as the amount of each subsidy, she said.

Acampora and Dames said UCS will ask more private employers to donate to this project if this year’s data shows more students are going to interviews and applying to jobs in these sectors as a

result of MetroLink.

Dames said while the financial need of each applicant is considered when UCS allocates MetroLink funding, the process is conducted on a “first-come, first-serve basis until the money runs out.”

All nine seniors interviewed supported UCS’s expansion of MetroLink.

Drew Morrison ’14, who is interested in public service and government work, said UCS needs to double these efforts to provide more opportunities for students to pursue careers other than financial services or consulting. Banks and consulting firms dominate the landscape because of their large recruiting budgets, he said, adding that UCS should level the playing field by inviting nonprofits and government agencies to interview at Yale.

Uriel Epshtein ’14, who is interested in government work, said interviews can help to clarify misconceptions students have about some industries. He added that students often perceive government compensation to be much lower than what it actually is — a perception that could be corrected during an interview.

“I think [MetroLink is] definitely a step in the right direction,” Epshtein said.

John Gonzalez ’14, who is interested in nonprofit work, said Yale needs to do a better job of catering to the needs of low-income students on campus.

He said although $100 does not sound like a lot of money to some students, it can mean the difference between a student going to an interview for his or her dream job or missing out on the opportunity.

The three firms that contributed to the MetroLink fund this year were Marmol Radiner, Flow Traders and Spark Investment Management.

Contact RISHABH BHANDARI at rishabh.bhandari@yale.edu .

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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” OSCAR WILDE IRISH WRITER

Malloy pushes universal pre-K

BY ABIGAIL BESSLER STAFF REPORTER In his State of the State address last week, Gov. Dannel Malloy called for funding to implement a universal pre-kindergarten program in Connecticut.

If the proposed $13.8 million plan to increase access to pre-K education by 40 percent in the next five years is passed, around 4,000 additional kids will have spots in state-funded programs.

The plan aims to give these spots to low-income students, using preexisting eligibility requirements for the state’s School Readiness Program, according to a Friday statement from the governor’s office.

“We know that early education is one of the best ways to level the playing field for students,” Malloy said in his address. “If you believe as I do that education is the civil rights issue of our time, then I ask you to join me today in taking the first steps toward making sure every child has access to a pre-K experience.”

Malloy’s proposal is not the first of its kind. President Obama’s State of the Union endorsed universal pre-K, a proposal that has gained prominence after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio made it the centerpiece of his campaign. When he was Mayor of Stamford, Malloy himself made pre-K programs mandatory.

The plan will increase School Readiness slots by 1,020 for the 2015 fiscal year. Parents who currently have children enrolled in the School Readiness Program pay for these spots on a sliding scale based on income, with tuition fees in New Haven ranging from $0 to $175 a week, according to a 2012 guide to parents offered by the NHPS Early Childhood Program. Spots are available in both public and private schools.

“Children who have access to high quality care early on have lower rates of special education enrollment later, and they’re prepared to enter classrooms in kindergarten,” said Dr. Myra Jones-Taylor GRD ’11, executive director of the state’s Office of Early Childhood. “Investing in children is simply good policy.”

There are currently 10,834 School Readiness slots offered to three and four-year-old children in 67 towns marked “priority” and “competitive.” An additional 6,124 kids receive pre-K training through the Head Start Program, and 11,442 kids who are not in either program attend preschool in public schools. The state also funds child daycare centers, according to the Connecticut Office of Early Childhood.

In New Haven — a “priority” town — 27.6 percent of kindergartners in the 2012-13 school year did not have any pre-K

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Gov. Dannel Malloy proposed a $13.8 million plan to help bolster access to pre-K education by 40 percent in the next five years — a plan that could help educate 4,000 additional children. experience, according to a report by the state Department of Education.

“Regardless of where children receive their care from birth to when they’re five, it should be of the highest quality,” Jones-Taylor said, adding that communication between pre-K and kindergarten teachers is crucial to ensuring high quality care.

Last week, Malloy held an event in Hamden at Helen Street School, which has a 27-slot pre-K program that was established six years ago and currently has 10 School Readiness slots.

Dr. Michael Lorenzo, Helen Street School’s principal, said he thinks all kids should go through pre-K training.

“We should build a foundation as early as possible, so when kids get into kindergarten, we’re building on a sound, solid foundation, and we don’t have to go back to basic skills,” he said. “We can get out of the gate running.”

Lorenzo said kindergarten and pre-K teachers at Helen Street School collaborate on their curricula. Kindergarten teachers say teaching kids with pre-K training

is easier, since they know what skills kids who come into their class already have.

Lorenzo, like Malloy, emphasized the success of the School Readiness slots in helping lowincome students catch up to higher income peers.

When a child from a lowincome family enters first grade, that child’s vocabulary has on average 15,000 fewer words than one of a middle-class child, according to a study by Jumpstart, a national early education organization.

Dr. Elizabeth Carroll, director of Yale’s Education Studies Department, said pre-K not only provides students with muchneeded vocabulary but also social skills and help with any developmental disabilities.

“Research is pretty clear about the benefits of early childhood education,” Carroll said.

“It’s important from a developmental standpoint that children are ready to have the stamina to attend school and be successful. If kids get behind early on in elementary school, it’s hard for them to get caught up.”

In addition to the School Readiness spots, the Governor’s proposal would increase perstudent funding by 3 percent for home-base providers through Care 4 Kids, a subsidy that gave childcare vouchers to 6,993 preschool aged kids in Connecticut in December 2013, according to that month’s Care 4 Kids Expenditure Report. There are 2,428 licensed home-base care providers in the state, who care for newborns to five-year-olds, according to the Office of Early Childhood.

In New Haven, around 900 preschool-age children receive home-based care, according to Steven Morales, a research and evaluation fellow for All Our Kin, a Connecticut-based nonprofit that trains and supports community child care providers.

Cyd Oppenheimer LAW ’04, a co-chair of the New Haven Early Childhood Council, said she expects some of the 4,000 proposed slots to go to New Haven students.

New Haven has expanded their pre-K programs — in 1995, just 63.2 percent of children in

New Haven had a pre-K experience prior to kindergarten, compared to the 72.4 percent now, according to NHPS Early Childhood Program’s website.

But an estimated 44 percent of three and four-year-olds in New Haven are eligible for the free and reduced price lunch program, Oppenheimer said.

And 3.5 percent of kindergarteners in the city had to repeat kindergarten in 2012, according to the report by the Department of Education.

Though Oppenheimer said she supports the governor, she is concerned that the proposed funds may not address the quality of the childcare provided.

“Every slot needs to be high quality,” she said. “It should be staffed with teachers that have credentials in early childhood, and the curriculum needs to be developmentally appropriate.”

The state has already made steps toward higher quality programs, with a state statute passed a few years ago calling for all head teachers to have a bachelor’s degree by 2020, Oppenheimer said.

Still, Oppenheimer said the state needs a standard of quality that links federally-set Head Start standards with state-set School Readiness standards.

Another issue not addressed in the proposal is teacher salaries.

A preschool teacher’s average salary is $29,500 a year; a starting elementary school teacher makes $42,000 a year, according to Oppenheimer.

This year, New Haven Public Schools put additional questions on its kindergarten registration form, asking parents whose children did not attend pre-K to list why their child did not attend a pre-K program.

“I feel very strongly that we need to get better data first to figure out where the need is,” Oppenheimer said. “I absolutely support the governor, but we need to be clear that this needs to happen.”

Malloy is calling on the Office of Early Childhood to submit a plan for universal pre-K access

by Jan. 1, 2015.

Contact ABIGAIL BESSLER at abigail.bessler@yale.edu .

Harp proposes CT soda tax

BY J.R. REED AND HANNAH SCHWARZ STAFF REPORTERS In the midst of New Haven’s 375,000 lb. weight loss challenge and other health efforts, Mayor Toni Harp is proposing a statewide 2 percent soda tax.

As part of her 2014 legislative agenda, Harp has spearheaded a 2 percent tax on high-calorie drinks to reduce sales of soda and generate about $144 million in revenue across the state. The former Connecticut State Senator first introduced a tax on soft drinks in 2010, but the proposal never passed the State’s Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding.

Since 2009, 30 states have proposed specific soda taxes. However, no state has successfully implemented such a tax to date.

In 2013, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attempted to crack down on large, sugary drinks through size restrictions, rather than taxes, but a New York appeals court found the proposed law unconstitutional.

Harp said that it is critical for the Elm City to tackle this policy because “too many” city residents struggle with weight issues. After surveying about 2,500 residents in low-income neighborhoods, Yale’s Community Alliance for Research and Engagement surveyed found 70 percent of adults were obese and 50 percent of chil-

dren were overweight or obese, according to Harp.

“As a government, we have an obligation to let people know the impact of certain things on their body,” Harp said. “I’m hoping that people don’t think of it as a tax but as a public health initiative.”

I’m hoping that people don’t think of it as a tax but as a public health initiative.

TONI HARP Mayor, New Haven Harp said studies have shown there is a direct relationship between sugary drink consumption and diabetes, cancer, heart disease and mental illness. Harp said the United States was able to reduce the number of people who smoke by adding a tax to cigarettes, and research has indicated that adding a similar tax to sugary drinks would reduce their consumption as well.

Roberta Friedman, director of public policy at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, said almost all of the soda tax bills that have been proposed have ear-

marked revenue for obesity prevention programs, a trend that aligns with Harp’s proposal. Harp believes the revenue generated from the soda tax could be used for health related purposes, such as promoting fresh fruits and vegetables, fostering nutrition education curricula and funding outdoor activities.

Unlike some other states, including New York, Connecticut doesn’t grant cities the authority to implement taxes — Harp’s proposal will only affect New Haven if it passes the state legislature and is signed by Gov. Dannel Malloy.

While State Senate Majority Leader Martin Looney agrees with Harp that pursuing such a tax is a worthwhile effort, he said it is unlikely to pass this year.

“She’s well aware, having been a senator for 21 years, that you have to lay the groundwork for future legislation,” Looney said.

“This proposal is getting the issue into discussions, and it’s an important way of looking for fiscal revenue.”

Director of Economic Initiatives at the Rudd Center Tatiana Andreyeva underscored that soda taxes do not come easily.

“The beverage industry is big money, and they’re worried that if it happens in one state, other states will follow suit,” she said.

When Richmond, Calif., a city

of only about 100,000 people, tried to pass a soda tax, the beverage industry poured in millions of dollars to ensure its failure, she added.

Chris Gindlesperger, a spokesman for the American Beverage Association, said in a statement that consumers do not support soda taxes or regulations restricting grocery purchases. He said that education, rather than laws, can help fight obesity, adding that companies already put calorie counts on labels and offer lowand no-calorie choices.

Even so, a 2 percent tax may not have much of an effect.

According to Friedman, a soda tax must be at least around 20 percent of the beverage price to actually have an effect on consumer behavior. Although every 10 percent increase results in a 12 percent consumption decrease, the tax must first meet that threshold.

“A penny per ounce would be the right place to start,” she said, adding that this equals out to about 20 percent and is what the Rudd Center advocates.

The average American consumes 45 gallons of sugary drinks a year.

Contact J.R. REED at jonathan.t.reed@yale.edu and HANNAH SCHWARZ at hannah. schwarz@yale.edu .

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Mayor Toni Harp’s proposal for a statewide 2 percent soda tax aims to decrease obesity and increase state funds.

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FROM THE FRONT Teaching not tied to tenure TENURE FROM PAGE 1 faculty outperformed tenure-track faculty in both respects.

“My collaborators and I didn’t know what to expect when we embarked on this project, because we could formulate highly plausible hypotheses that could predict [multiple outcomes],” study author David Figlio, said in an email.

Figlio said he was not surprised by the study’s results, as tenure-track faculty are measured and evaluated by the quality of their research, while non-tenuretrack faculty are “recruited, retained and rewarded” for the quality of their teaching. This may cause them to be more focused on their students than their tenure-track counterparts, he said.

Economics Director of Undergraduate Studies Samuel Kortum said that though he has not read the study, its findings are fairly predictable.

“I’m not denying or surprised that a study says that people at least like the courses taught by non-[tenure]-track teachers better,” Kortum said.

Economics professor and recent Nobel Prize winner Robert Shiller has been criticized by some students for his lecturing style in his “Introductory Macroeconomics” class this semester. But Kortum defended Shiller’s teaching, saying that a tenured professor might have a lot to offer even if students do not find him to be the smoothest lecturer.

Kortum said he is also wary of teacher evaluations, because the likability of a professor may not be an accurate reflection of the experience he or she can give students.

Doug McKee, associate chair of the Economics Department, said he agrees with Kortum that there is merit to having tenured-track faculty members teach introductory courses, which he pointed out is a long-standing tradition at Yale.

He said that introductory courses not only give students background knowledge, but also encourage them to take more classes in the department. For this reason, he said, it is important for students to have exposure to the top researchers in the field — the tenure-track professors.

Amen Jalal ’17 said it is precisely Shiller’s research experience that makes him an effective teacher. Because he has

so many personal stories about how he has actually applied the material, the course becomes more relevant and interesting, she said.

“Generally when you study textbook material, you don’t know how to relate it to the world,” Jalal said. “But when Shiller talks about stuff he’s done or talked about at conferences, you realize it’s much more practical. I’ve personally always enjoyed his anecdotes more than anything — I can read the textbook on my own.”

The study acknowledged that it did not measure tenure-track faculty’s teaching quality for more advanced courses. Mevlut Ikiz ’17, a student in Shiller’s class, said the basic course content in “Introductory

Macroeconomics” could be the root of his dissatisfaction with Shiller’s teaching.

Figlio said the study was not intended to guide administrators to assign faculty to certain courses. Rather, he said, it was meant to be an objective statistical analysis of instructional quality — but the results may still have real implications for the academic world.

There are 459 tenured Arts and Sciences professors at Yale College, according to the University’s website.

Contact PHOEBE KIMMELMAN at phoebe.kimmelman@yale.edu and VIVIAN WANG at vivian.y.wang@yale.edu .

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Tenured professor Paul Bloom teaches the popular PSYC 110, “Introduction to Psychology.”

“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.”

DESMOND TUTU SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL RIGHTS ACTIVIST

Emails to replace Kaleidoscope KALEIDOSCOPE FROM PAGE 1 in last year’s show, despite the theme of diversity. That, he said, combined with a general lack of interest in the program among freshmen, indicates that the University should look into revamping the performance or coming up with something new altogether.

In contrast, Christina Wang ’15 — also a member of last year’s cast — said it is a shame that the program has been cancelled.

Unlike Noelte, Wang said she

believes that having a performance about diversity is much more effective than sending emails with stories that incoming freshmen could choose not to open or read. By interacting directly with the freshmen, she said, upperclassmen are able to better convey the nuances of Yale’s people and communities.

The IAC currently has 19 members, including students and administrators.

Contact WESLEY YIIN at wesley.yiin@yale.edu .

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ON CAMPUS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13 5:00 p.m. “Photography as a Scholarly Practice” A discussion with Matthew Frye Jacobson, Alison Kanosky, Anne McClintock, and Laura Wexler in conjunction with the exhibition “At the Crossroads of Hope and Despair: America since the Crash.” Photographs by Matthew Frye Jacobson.

Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Rm. 108.

5:30 p.m. “What Does It Mean to Be Moved by an Artwork?”

In his talk, Winfried Menninghaus will address basic implications and assumptions concerning the notion of an empirical aesthetics as it underlies his current work at the Max Plank Institute. Part of the German Speaker Series. Whitney Humanities Center (53 Wall St.), Rm. 208.

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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14 12:00 p.m. Iran Colloquium: “Out of the Shadows: A Case Study of a Nineteenth Century Iranian Region in a Wider Historical Perspective.” The Yale Program in Iranian Studies and the Council on Middle East Studies from The MacMillan Council are sponsoring a panel with Joanna de Groot, history lecturer at the University of York, and James M. Gustafson, an assistant professor of history at Indiana State University focusing on social and economic history. Free to the general public. Luce Hall (34 Hillhouse Ave.), Rm. 203.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 3:00 p.m. Angles on Art: “Survivals in Destruction.” Explore the diversity of the collection through the eyes of our Gallery Guides, undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines.

These lively concersations address a range of topics and will inspire visitors to see the collection in new ways. . Yale University Art Gallery (1111 Chapel St.).

7:30 p.m. “Slavs, Klez, and Friends!” Not just the Slavs, not just the Klezmer Band, and not just friends of Slavs. No, we’ve gone a step farther and put them all in the same place at the same time singing together. That’s right. Slavs, Klez, and Friends is here!

Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale (80 Wall St.).

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Senate clears debt limit measure for Obama

BY ANDREW TAYLOR ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Legislation to raise the federal debt limit and prevent a crippling government default cleared Congress on Wednesday with an awkward assist from top Senate Republican leaders who were forced into a politically treacherous vote engineered by tea party favorite Ted Cruz.

The Texas Republican’s maneuver forced several GOP colleagues, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, into a reluctant vote against a filibuster, helping the measure along. It’s a vote likely to cause grief for McConnell, who is facing a primary election challenges.

On a day of legislative drama, the key vote clearing the way for final action was held open for more than an hour — as the stock market looked on nervously — and broke open only after McConnell and top lieutenant John Cornyn, R-Texas, unexpectedly voted “aye.” Several other Republicans then switched their votes to support the measure, ultimately breaking the filibuster by a 67-31 margin.

The bill then passed the Senate by a near party-line 55-43 vote, with all of the yes votes coming from President Barack Obama’s allies.

“I’m pleased that Republicans and Democrats in Congress have come together to pay for what they’ve already spent, and remove the threat of default from our economy once and for all,” Obama said in a statement.

The president is now clear to sign the bill, which allows the government to borrow all the money it needs to pay bills such

as Social Security benefits, federal salaries, and payments to Medicare and Medicaid providers. Failure to pass it would have likely sent the stock market — which dipped modestly as the voting dragged on — into a tailspin.

After the tally, Cruz said he had no regrets about his political maneuvers in opposition to the bill, saying the “Senate has given President Obama a blank check.”

As for forcing a difficult vote upon McConnell, Cruz said: “That is ultimately a decision ... for the voters of Kentucky.”

McConnell faces a primary election challenge from tea party candidate Matt Bevin and has been under sharp criticism from outside groups who say he isn’t conservative enough.

Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., was among those who appeared frustrated by the political theatrics.

“A lot of people stepped up and did what they needed to do,” Corker said of those who acted to let the must-pass legislation win final approval. Congress has never failed to act to prevent a default on U.S. obligations, which most experts say would spook financial markets and cause a spike in interest rates.

Cruz countered: “In my view, every Republican should stand together against raising the debt ceiling without meaningful structural reforms to rein in our out-of-control spending.”

The same bill had passed the House on Tuesday after Republican leaders gave up efforts to hold up the debt ceiling measure to win concessions from Obama on GOP agenda items like winning approval of construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

Quick action on this latest debt limit bill stands in contrast

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House Republican leaders challenged President Barack Obama to override the opposition of the Senate’s top Democrats and help pass trade legislation. to lengthy showdowns in 2012 and last fall, when Republicans sought to use the must-pass legislation as leverage to win concessions from Obama. They succeeded in 2011, winning about $2 trillion in spending cuts.

But Obama has been unwilling to negotiate over the debt limit since his re-election, and Wednesday’s legislation is the third consecutive debt measure

passed without White House concessions.

Republicans have been less confrontational since October’s 16-day partial government shutdown sent GOP poll numbers skidding and chastened the party’s tea party faction. Republicans have instead sought to focus voters’ attention on the implementation and effects of Obama’s health care law.

But most Republicans still say any increase in the debt ceiling should be accompanied by cuts to the spiraling costs of costly benefit programs like Medicare.

“We need some reform before we raise the debt ceiling. We need to demonstrate that we are taking steps that will reduce the accumulation of debt in the future,” said Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, top Republican on the

Budget Committee. “And the president and the Democratic Senate have just flatly refused.

So they’ve just said, ‘We’ll accept no restraint on spending’.”

Some Republicans seemed irked that Cruz wouldn’t let the bill pass without forcing it to clear a 60-vote threshold that required some Republicans to help it advance.

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SPORTS

“Now batting for the New York Yankees, number two, Derek Jeter. Number two.”

BOB SHEPPARD LATE YANKEES PA ANNOUNCER

Freaky fridays for the Elis MEN’S HOCKEY FROM PAGE 10 coach Keith Allain ’80 said of getting his team to compete for two full games each weekend.

“We talk about our preparation and go back over everything. We try to make sure we’re doing everything possible to make sure we’re ready to go on Friday night.”

Many of Yale’s woes stem from its struggles in Friday night games. Last week’s overtime victory over RPI snapped a four-game losing skid on Fridays for the Bulldogs and moved them to 3–5–1 in Friday games this season. That figure stands in stark contrast to the team’s 9–2–3 record on Saturdays and Sundays.

Despite the oft-repeated mantra that the Bulldogs “have the same approach for every game,” Yale has also had varying levels of success at home versus on the road, going just 4–4–2 on the road, compared to 6–2–2 at home.

“I don’t think there is one reason to explain this, but it all comes back to every single guy being prepared for every single game,” defenseman Rob O’Gara ’16 said in an email to the News. “Unfortunately, our preparation level come game time on Fridays lately has not been as strong as on Saturdays.”

The differences between the team on Fridays and Saturdays is most apparent in the difference between Yale’s offensive performances on those nights. Since December, Yale has averaged just 1.80 goals scored per game on Fridays and 3.85 per game on Saturdays. The team’s best goal differential all year came in a 6–0 victory over Brown just one day after finding the back of the net just once in a 3–1 loss to the Bears on Friday, Jan. 24.

The defensive regression on Fridays, compared with Saturdays is also evident. Yale has allowed 26 goals in nine Friday games, compared to 28 goals allowed in its other 14 games.

Before last weekend’s 5–3 loss at No. 3 Union, the Bulldogs had not allowed more than three goals in a Saturday game all year.

“In order for us to have the goal-scoring success we’ve had in Saturday [games] on Fridays, it’s about bringing the intensity both days,” said forward John Hayden ’17. “In the next three weekends, we’re looking to have the same intensity on both [days].”

This weekend features a game that has been circled on everyone’s calendars since last April, as it will be the first time that No. 4 Quinnipiac has played in Ingalls Rink since Yale’s national championship banner was raised to the rafters.

That title was earned in a 4–0 smackdown of the Bobcats, but in the teams’ lone matchup this year, the Bulldogs escaped High Point Solutions Arena with a 3–3 tie despite allowing 51 shots while they generated just 20.

The puck drops against Quinnipiac at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.

Contact GRANT BRONSDON at grant.bronsdon@yale.edu .

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The men’s ice hockey team is averaging 2.05 more goals per game on Saturdays than Fridays.

Squash warms up for Nationals SQUASH FROM PAGE 10 wins were at the top three spots against Neil Martin ’14, Sam Fenwick ’16 and Zach Leman ’16.

According to Caine, his team is well prepared to defeat Rochester and move to the second round of the championship games.

“I’m feeling very excited about nationals,” Cheong said.

“We really hope that, in this last leap, we can all play our best and achieve the incredible.”

COLUMN FROM PAGE 10 Jeremy Giambi at the plate. After the former play, he emerged from the stands with his face bloody and swollen, but you knew that he would do it again the exact same way.

Jeter was the Yankees’ Captain, the heir to the spirits of Ruth, Gehrig and Mattingly. He was never the most vocal player on the field or in the clubhouse, but you only had to watch him make plays like those to understand why, in 2003, he was the first player given to that hallowed honor in eight years. The simplest way to put it was that Jeter had class. He played the game the way it was meant to be played. He respected the media and loved the fans. Jeter was the rare athlete whose personal life was a source of pride rather than embarrassment.

With the Olympics, the world’s great forum of sportsmanship, going on this month, it is all the more appropriate to talk about Jeter’s impact outside the batter’s box. It has been two decades since Charles Barkley so famously told us that athletes are not role models, and the country just spent more of the week leading up to the Super Bowl wondering whether Richard Sherman is a thug rather than whether his team would win. He’s not a thug, but that doesn’t make him a shining light for America’s youth either. More than a great player, Jeter was always a great ambassador for the game, especially as baseball went through its biggest scandal in decades.

He was one of the few athletes today capable of etching his name in New York’s heart.

Every city deserves its Derek Jeter, and every child deserves that kind of hero. As athletes we can look up to become fewer and farther between, I hope that as a chapter of my life and Jeter’s comes to a close, the doors open for others who can follow in his footsteps.

Going into this weekend, we have nothing to lose.

NEIL MARTIN ’14 Men’s squashy The Eli men have only been defeated by No. 1 Harvard and No. 2 Trinity thus far this season.

Both matches were tight, and the 5-4 fall to Trinity was especially narrow.

Caine said the Bulldogs are eager for another chance to face off against the Crimson and the Bantams after the close losses.

“I think we have had a really great season which gives confidence going into nationals,” Dembinski said.

Martin said the Elis were underdogs this season and have surprised the competition with their success.

A number of the Bulldogs said that they are confident entering the weekend’s action.

“Going into this weekend we have nothing to lose,” Martin said in an email.

The champion team will be decided after three rounds of play.

Contact ERICA PANDEY at erica. pandey@yale.edu .

O captain!

My captain!

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The men’s squash team will enter nationals ranked third in the country and will face Rochester in the first round.

JOHN SULLIVAN is a senior in Branford College. Contact him at john.j.sullivan@yale.edu .

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“I know that if we play well we can get past some tough matches.”

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Elis head to nationals SQUASH

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The men’s squash team will travel to Cambridge this weekend to compete in the CSA Team Championships.

BY ERICA PANDEY STAFF REPORTER The men’s squash team will head north to battle the eight best college teams in the College Squash Association’s Team Championships at Harvard this weekend.

The Eli men (14-2, 6-1 Ivy) hold

SQUASH the No. 3 position in the CSA rankings, behind Harvard and Trinity.

The other five opponent schools will be St. Lawrence, Franklin and Marshall, Rochester, Cornell and Penn, at the 4th-8th ranks, respectively. Together, the eight schools

make up the Potter Division, the top division at the championships, and will be fighting for the CSA national title.

“I know that if we play well, we can get past some tough matches,” TJ Dembinski ’17 said. “We can hopefully do some serious damage with the goal being the national

title.”

Dembinski will play at the fourth position for Yale. Positions 5 and 6 will also be handled by freshmen Kah Wah Cheong ’17 and Liam McClintock ’17.

The CSA championships will be held as a single-elimination tournament, raising the pressure

No T.G.I.F. for the Bulldogs

of each match. As the No. 3 team, Yale’s first match will be against the Rochester Yellow Jackets. The victor advances to play the winner of the matchup between No. 2 Trinity and No. 7 Cornell.

“We’ll prepare just like any other match,” captain Eric Caine ’14 said. “We’re optimistic that if

we play strong and tough, we’ll be fine.”

The Jackets defeated the Bulldogs in last year’s CSA championships, but Yale bested Rochester 6-3 at an away match early this season. Rochester’s three SEE SQUASH PAGE 9

JOHN SULLIVAN

Pride of the Yankees

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The Bulldogs are 3–5–1 on Fridays this season, but 9–2–3 when playing on Saturday or Sunday.

BY GRANT BRONSDON STAFF REPORTER With just six games remaining in the regular season, every game matters for the No. 13 Yale men’s ice hockey team.

MEN’S HOCKEY Yale currently finds itself in a dogfight for a spot in the NCAA tournament. In order to dig themselves out of this hole, the Bulldogs will need to solve a bigger problem:

inconsistency.

The Elis (12–7–4, 7–6–3 ECAC) have won consecutive games just three times all season, with none of those streaks coming on the same weekend. Of the 16 teams tied with or ranked ahead

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of Yale in the PairWise rankings, all have at least one winning streak of three games or more, a feat Yale has yet to accomplish.

“I think it’s a process,” head SEE MEN’S HOCKEY PAGE 9

Childhood ends slowly, and it ends in pieces. For some, those pieces fall off when they graduate elementary school, or middle school or even high school.

They might have felt the weight of age when they got their drivers licenses or had their first kisses. For many of my fellow seniors, seeing Andy from “Toy Story” go off to college the same year that we did was the end of an era. But the last curtain of my youth will come down next fall when Derek Jeter walks off the field at Yankee Stadium for the final time.

Every city has its sports heroes: Boston has Tom Brady and David Ortiz, Chicago has Michael Jordan and Derek Rose, Cleveland has Lebron James (I’m sorry, that was just mean), but no city over the past 20 years has had the rela-

tionship with an athlete that New York has had with Derek Jeter. It was more than the five World Series rings, or the 3,316 hits or the 13 All-Star appearances. It isn’t the numbers that will send him to Cooperstown as a first-ballot Hall of Famer that forged a place in our hearts for Derek Jeter. Every year thousands of boys pick up a baseball glove and dream of playing for the New York Yankees.

Jeter was living that dream, and played as though he knew it.

The indelible images Jeter will leave us with are of him diving headfirst into the seats at Yankee Stadium against the Red Sox or sprinting all the way across the field to flip the ball to Jorge Posada and catch SEE COLUMN PAGE 9

WINNING PERCENTAGE BY THE YALE MEN’S HOCKEY TEAM IN GAMES ON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS. The Elis have a winning percentage of .389 in Friday games. Yale will host Quinnipiac on Friday before taking on Princeton at home on Saturday.